Seriously, he said that. And he did it on Russian state-sponsored TV, as Racer magazine reports.

“It’s hard for me. I’m not very enthusiastic about America,” Ecclestone said on RT. “The biggest problem with America is that they believe that they are the greatest superpower in the world. Believe. Not in reality. And it’s difficult. They’re sort of isolated – they’re a big island. They’re slowly starting to learn about what other people in the world do.”

Nobody talks about the US of A like that. At least, nobody as vile as Bernie does.